FCC Wants To Overhaul Comments System

The FCC is planning to overhaul its comment filing system following reports of widespread fake submissions during the commenting period on the net neutrality rollback last year. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a letter to Sens. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) that the commission has put in a request with the House and Senate Appropriations committees to upgrade its Electronic Comment Filing System to crack down on comments from bots, noting that the FCC “inherited” this system from the Obama administration.